Greg's fun palace!

[gregmonsta]

The first parietalis litter is here - British x Dutch (Slithers x Biscuit)

Quite eventful - I arranged to buy a second hand viv last night (to set up as a 'first snake kit' for a very lucky young man) and at about 1pm I got the call to meet at 2 .... I like to be early so I got ready to leave at quarter too. That's when I noticed that Biscuit was doing the toothpaste wriggle ... I couldn't see anything yet and had to go so I thought that I would catch most of it since I was only going to be gone for a few minutes ....

The other person was running late ... so much so that I was away for more than 30mins. I came back and looked in the viv. Biscuit was at the front of the viv and delivering a fresh one ... Fawn was in the hot hide - covered in Biscuits babies. I wish I had a picture of it but I don't.

Anyway, stats - No lock was observed but I approximate about 80 days or just over.
Weight after brumation - 11/02 - 270g, before birth 18/04 - 340g
Result = 18 babies - 11 live, 7 stillborn/possibly crushed.

The still born consisted of 3 kinked/a little deformed (born dead), 2 that showed the onset of decay at umbilacle and 2 that may have been crushed by Fawn in the hide but there's no way of knowing for sure.

Anyhows ... pics?

[guidofatherof5]

Love those parietalis scrubs.

[chris-uk]

I expect you had more pressing things to do than grab a camera and photograph Fawn covered in babies.
Not the largest litter, but you're starting to fill the flat with baby garters... Got to be good.

[gregmonsta]

Got to be good.

it is, it is, it is

I'm kinda supposed to be studying though!!!

[chris-uk]

Bah. Revision is for wimps. Exams are always badly timed for the good weather, and in your case birthing season.

[gregmonsta]

Well, the other parietalis girl if officially of food as of today ... and acting fairly neurotically ... more to come on that girl.
The albino marcianus also decided that three of the smelt she ate didn't fit in her frame in her current condition so she decided to vomit them back up ... the other checkered girl did a similar thing last year as she was approaching the end of the 'gravidity'.
No idea on the radix .... Looking like sausages, eating like sausages, hogging the hot-spot like sausages .... you get the picture .... sausages!!!

[guidofatherof5]

Good radix, good radix.

[gregmonsta]

By definition a plains garter will hereby be known as Sausage snake ...

[Greg'sGarters]

Very nice!!!

[chris-uk]

By definition a plains garter will hereby be known as Sausage snake ...

Tastes good in a finger roll with mustard and tomato sauce?

Have the radix girls still not popped? Ready for a big radix litter?